The organization of this course outline is based in part on current thought regarding the teaching of reading as it relates to whether comprehension is a general skill or a set of specific identifiable skills, to reading as content and process, to vocabulary development, and to divergent thinking. The outline is divided into two major sections: recognizing and understanding ideas and recognizing and understanding words. Subsumed under the first section are comprehension skills including literal comprehension, interpretive or implied comprehension, critical level of comprehension, study skills, consumer survival skills, reading the newspaper, and recreational reading. Also included in the first section is rate of comprehension including flexibility, skimming, and scanning. Subsumed under the second section are vocabulary development, structural analysis, phonic analysis, dictionary skills, and oral reading skills. In the outline, each division consists of a number of teaching techniques and suggestions for direct classroom application with references that are intended to be suggestive rather than comprehensive. (TJ)